Lot ID:
20954
Joseph
Cornell:
Blue Sand Box
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Description
Title:
Blue Sand Box
Style: abstract, Found object, Modern, Surrealism
Medium: Sculptures, Glass, Found Object, Wood, Mixed Media, box construction with metal spring and sand
Year: 1950
Size: height - 6.5 in, width - 9.8 in, depth - 1.5 in
cm
Markings: other, No Markings
Edition: UNIQUE
Estimate: from US$125,000 to US$160,000
Seller's Description:
This minimal and evocative sand box—from the highly-sought-after series of 'time machines' by JOSEPH CORNELL—implies the sand passing through an hourglass while it also describes movement. The sealed glass box contains a metal spring, possibly from a clock, and deep marine blue colored sand, as if the color of the sea itself. The map-like grid background supports the cartography of time imagery, while altogether the work is sublime and minimal. The artist’s sand boxes were recently exhibited in a retrospective that travelled from the Smithsonian Museum to the Peabody Essex Museum to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
JOSEPH CORNELL's three-dimensional collage boxes are de rigueur in Dada/Surreal collections, however his sand boxes also translate well in collections of minimal and conceptual art.
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- History & Provenance
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Provenance:
Directly from the artist, to
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany, EU
Collection Mönter (loan to Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach), EU
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland, EU
Private Collection, Italy, EU
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland, EU
Private Collection, EU
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Shipping Weight:
15 lbs
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Item Location:
Switzerland
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+ VAT in the EU
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